Diphilus
Δίφιλος
(Δίφιλος).
1. A physician of Siphnus, one of the Cyclades, who was a contemporary of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, about the beginning of the third century B. C. (Athen.ii.p. 51.) He wrote a work entitled, Περὶ τῶν Προσφερομένων τοῖς Νοσοῦσι καὶ τοῖς Ῥγιαίνουσι, " On Diet fit for Persons in good and bad Health" (Ath. 3.24. p. 82), which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus, but of which nothing remains but the short fragments preserved by him. (ii. pp. 51,54,55,56, &c.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.